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From: nerd@percy.rain.com (Michael Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386
Message-ID: <C82Aw4.16s@percy.rain.com>
Date: 3 Jun 93 20:14:18 GMT
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guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:

>mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:

>>If so, I am planning on purchasing BSDI/386 soon and I am
>>wondering if there is support for Digiboard products.
>>Specifically, I want to use a Digiboard 8-port "smart"
>>card for the modem pool on my 486 box.

The "smart" cards (pc/Xe, pc/Xi) will be supported in the next release
of BSDI.

>I don't know about bsdi's comdriver but 386bsd stock comdriver
>can be replaced by one having multiport extentions. The author
>thinks it to be a hack and doesnt like to support it but
>it did a good job for me in the past.

The "smart" cards are a diferent story from the pc4 & pc8 from digiboard
which are already supported under 1.0.

>But I'm sure that the guys at bsdi can help you with this, though
>I dont know there address. Try postmaster@bsdi.com.

They probably can, they are always very helpfull.

DISCLAMER:  I don't work for or represent BSDI, I'm just a very happy
customer of theirs.  I do have good reason to beleive there is a current
effort to get this driver out in the next release.

-michael